Kotlin Backend @ Coupang discusses Coupang's adoption of Kotlin for backend development. Some of the key reasons for adopting Kotlin included improving code safety, readability and testability. Example uses of Kotlin included developing common libraries, components like a Korean tokenizer, a Kafka client, an audit tool and a product creation pipeline system. Spring Data Requery was also developed as an alternative to JPA/Hibernate that provided better performance. Overall, Kotlin helped improve code quality, simplify asynchronous programming and increase development productivity at Coupang.